EDUCATION IN DOMINION.
NEW ORGANISATION SET UP. (BY TELEGRAPH—PRESS ASSOCIATION.) WELLINGTON, Sept. 20. At a public meeting ’ held to-night representative of all branches of education, primary, secondary and university, school committees and the Workers’ Educational Association, it was decided to inaugurate a progressive educational movement, to be known as the New Zealand Association for the Advancement of Education. It was pointed out by various speakers that there was a danger, through public apathy, that the cause of education would' he prejudiced by an unst a tos in anli ke policy of economy and retrogression, as instanced in the- rumoured abolition of education boards. The aims of the new association, it was stated, are to organise all sections of public opinion with the object of creating a new attitude commensurate with the interest of the individual parent in the education and welfare o. I. is own children.
The Mayor (Mr. Troup) presided. The speakers included Professor IV. FT. Gould, of Victoria College; Mr. E. L. Combs, president of the New Zealand Educational institute; Mr. J. FT. Howell, principal of the Wellington Technical College; Mr. L. Hennessey, representing the School Committees’ Association, and Mr. M. J. Ford, of tlie Workeis’ Educational Association.
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Hawera Star, Volume XLVII, 21 September 1927, Page 7
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